533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.